In the good old days of consumerism you could learn a lot about other people by casually browsing through their record and book collection. But today most people don’t even have CD collections anymore – and they libraries exist only in a digital form.
But switching on someone’s computer, cell phone or iPod just to see what they have ‘on’ is rather intimate affair and not very nice.
I am in total agreance with you.
I’m 18 years old now and every musical memory I have involves shelf after shelf of the black stuff.
I first listened to music on vinyl, latter listened to cassette and gradualy got into cd.
Now that everything is mp3 my cd collection hasn’t been seen for years, I’ve lost most of my tapes, but I still make a point of having a vinyl collection.
I have to admit my digital music collection is easily in the 100G ball park, but then I’m a music man to the feet.
It’s part of the history of music.
Plainly: if it doesn’t hiss before the first note, it’s not proper music.
@Bassatron: Hello and thank you for your comment. Yeah, record collections have that certain something – just looking at it makes you proud. looking at a hard drive is boring.
Maybe we should all go back to hand cranked wax cylinders to get more in touch with music anyway? 
No fakes and no insults please. Thanks!